PITROF: Well, the district attorney charged Heaggan-Brown with first-degree reckless homicide not for the first shot he fired at Smith but for the second one. In a 15-second clip, Heaggan-Brown stops his police vehicle, gets out, draws his weapon and chases Smith, who falls in front of a chain-link fence and tosses a gun.
"The truth of the matter is, Officer Heaggan-Brown shouldn't have been on the force at all, he shouldn't have been on the street that night", Owens said, adding that Heaggan-Brown had been the subject of numerous use of force complaints. Three days later, Heaggan-Brown shot Sylville Smith to death, sparking riots in Sherman Park.
Heaggan-Brown was sacked from the police force in October after being charged with sexual assault in an unrelated case. Patrick Smith said of police officers.
The post Jury finds Milwaukee officer not guilty in fatal shooting of Sylville Smith appeared first on PBS NewsHour. Prosecutors contended Smith didn't pose a threat before Heaggan-Brown fired again. It deliberated for about ten hours before acquitting Haeggan-Brown on all charges - first-degree reckless homicide, punishable by up to 40 years in prison, second-degree reckless homicide, and homicide by negligent operation of a firearm. The data project Mapping Police Violence estimates that in 2015, only 1 percent of cases of on-duty shootings-over 1,000 in the United States that year alone-resulted in those involved being convicted of a crime.
After the shooting in August, angry demonstrators took to the streets of Milwaukee, setting fires to businesses and throwing rocks at the police. Just one day later, Heaggan-Brown was accused of sexually assaulting a man he met in a bar in Milwaukee.
"He looked like a known dude that fled from us plenty of times before", Heaggan-Brown said. The verdict was to be read Wednesday afternoon.
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Smith ran from a traffic stop, approached a chain-link fence, and turned to face the pursuing officers, gun in hand.
"They are trained to kill and not to protect and serve us". He then threw his gun over the fence, according to dashcam footage of the encounter.
The prosecution alleged Mr Heaggan-Brown fired just as Smith attempted to surrender. At that moment, I believe I started to - I see him running northeast.
Prosecutors said that Heaggan-Brown's first shot was reasonable, his second was not, as he no longer had any reason to fear for his life.
In the encounter with Smith, Heaggan-Brown and two other officers had approached Smith's rental auto because it was parked more than a foot from the curb and they believed a drug deal was about to take place.
Heaggan-Brown's attorney said that his client was simply protecting himself and his partner at the time.
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